This morning Associated Press reported that a massive data breach occurred inside the Starwood network. Five hundred million records containing personally identifiable information were stolen, exposing email addresses, credit card numbers, passport numbers, and birthdates. Marriott, who owns Starwood, told […]
2018 has started with yet another bombshell: the announcement of a set of vulnerabilities, named Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 / CVE-2017-5715). These vulnerabilities are deeply rooted in Intel x86 and some of the ARM-based microprocessors. These are serious security flaws […]
What is Microsoft LAPS? The Microsoft “Local Administrator Password Solution” (LAPS for short) was released on May 1, 2015. Microsoft LAPS provides a solution to the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every computer […]
News of the Google Docs phishing scam is not the first time that shared cloud-based resources have hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Many popular collaboration and IT management tools, such as Teamviewer and Slack, have had their […]
The WannaCry / WannaCrypt / WanaCrypt0r / WeCry / WeCrypt0r Ransomware has made I.T. admins all over the world literally wanna cry. From UK Hospitals, to FedEx and Telefonica, the WannaCrypt Ransomware has reaked havoc on over 200,000 machines in over […]
(don’t judge my photoshop skills….) The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine conveniently comes built in to many Microsoft malware apps. The most common is the default Windows Defender app that ships with Windows 8 OSes and above. You know a vulnerability is […]
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As we look to securely manage an increasingly remote and disparate work force, the very tools we use could well be opening us up to greater risk. Hacks to remote control software like Teamviewer and LogMeIn may be old news, […]
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